Photo by A Great Capture/Flickr The suits at Bell Canada have once again demonstrated that they have no concept of the social responsibility they owe Canadians for being allowed to…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Photo by Frank Gunn/CP. The universal health care system has long been sacred for Canadians of every political stripe. However, the strain placed upon the system…
In December 2003 the Progressive Conservative Party merged with the Canadian Alliance (formerly the Reform Party) to become the Conservative Party of Canada. The “progressive” disappeared in both name and…
In southern Ontario, I put seedlings in the ground, watered them, and they produced and produced and produced. I gave vegetables to co-workers, came up with recipes, and donated to…
The Premier of Alberta was whining about being temporarily suspended from posting to Facebook yesterday. 1. Smith, you block people, constituents, all the time!2. You post deadly disinformation about hoaxes…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses how many patients whose senses of taste and smell have been affected by COVID-19 never fully recover, while the…
So we were told all day last weekend that there would be riots in Miami when Trump was arraigned and tens of thousands of people would be showing up to…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: A new city above Toronto? Markham’s mayor thinks York Region’s municipalities should amalgamate #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://tinyurl.com/yptbazvb – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
A bit of bell hooks to mark the middle of pride month (from here at 1:27): “All of our lives we’ve experienced ourselves as queer, as not belonging as the…
Tom Friedman begins his latest column with a series of rhetorical questions: What if Mitch McConnell, at the close of his scalding speech on the Senate floor blaming Donald Trump…
Were you to go down the right-hand side panel of this blog, you would see that Pat Robertson appears in 30 past posts. That I did not acknowledge his recent…
Reading a future in politics for finance minister and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland is challenging. She is a strong individual but I think her career in politics is about…
Premier Smith in a flattering photo published by Postmedia along with its flattering story about her restaurant in High River (Photo: Source not identified, via National Post). Yesterday morning, Internet…
I didn’t vote for Danielle Smith and her party, nonetheless I thought congratulations on her victory were in order. Consequently I wrote her the following letter. Dear Premier Smith: Congratulations…
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Fiona Harvey reports on Greta Thunberg’s warning that a failure to stop burning fossil fuels amounts to a death sentence for people living…
A month ago the Sask Party and the SK NDP both said for different reasons, that getting our energy system to net-zero emissions was too hard. The NDP said this…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Donald Trump Is Arraigned on Federal Charges #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/492vefcr – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
The realpolitik definition of an open federal nomination in Canada is not that anyone interested in running has a fair shot at becoming the candidate; it is that anyone who…
When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally…
